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Comics hottest writer, Geoff Johns, raises the dead in this new trade paperback collection of this massive comics event.
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Geoff Johns has written Infinite Crisis, 52, Green Lantern, X-Men, The Avengers, Superman, and much more. Ivan Reis has illustrated The Avengers, Crux, Lady Death, Iron Man, The Invisibles, and Xena: Warrior Princess.
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Format:Paperback
Unless your a massive fan of DC comics and have an encyclopaedic knowledge of it's history, you'll be both confused and disappointed by the book.
Described as one of the biggest events in comics as of recent, it serves as a way to 'reset' the convoluted continuity of many DC characters. The downside of this is that the book is crammed full of obscure, unpopular characters who many British readers will have never heard of. In the end, the plot feels melodramatic with an anti-climactic and very predictable conclusion.
The art is great though.
Described as one of the biggest events in comics as of recent, it serves as a way to 'reset' the convoluted continuity of many DC characters. The downside of this is that the book is crammed full of obscure, unpopular characters who many British readers will have never heard of. In the end, the plot feels melodramatic with an anti-climactic and very predictable conclusion.
The art is great though.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the latest in DC's `big events' calendar, and carries on from the Sinestro Corps War and the subsequent spectrum of Lantern Corps, with back-ties to a number of past big events, and a spectacular resolution (or reset) to bring the Silver Age back to the centre-stage, with yet more resurrections, but this time with a reason, and a promise that this is the last of them (unless they realise that they have forgotten someone, I suppose).
At the end of the Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor's body was dumped on a planet in the forbidden space sector 666, and a black lantern grew around it. Here it is revealed that a being named Nekron has used it to power a corps of Black Lanterns to raise dead - or at least the physical remains of - people who were related to superheroes. This volume collects issues 0-8 of the main series of Blackest Night - other volumes featuring sub-sets of the heroes and their interaction with the Black Lanterns are also available.
The various Lantern Corps form a spectrum that can overpower the Black Lanterns, but the big secret that the Guardians of the Universe have been keeping is that there is a White power available, and the various Corps are the spectrum that makes up the white light. The Black Lanterns know where the White power has been hiding since it created the universe - and you can probably guess which planet it is on...
The story here is the initial Black Lantern attack on Earth, the gathering of forces, and the fight-back. It begins with a team-up story of the Flash and the Green Lantern, renewing their friendship, and ends with the White light resurrecting a number of currently dead heroes. During the course of the story we discover that Nekron claims to be responsible for the previous resurrections of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and the Flash, and others, and tries to convert them to Black Lanterns - succeeding with some of them. Eventually, his claim is disputed and he is defeated, but with a cost - resurrection of dead heroes!
The artwork is up to the task of depicting the action, as is the writing. For myself, the successive big events with skies crowded with characters and world- or even multiverse-shattering epics mean very little to me, as the writers have to come up with something bigger each time. Hopefully, now that the universe has been re-established and reset yet again, things will calm down...
At the end of the Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor's body was dumped on a planet in the forbidden space sector 666, and a black lantern grew around it. Here it is revealed that a being named Nekron has used it to power a corps of Black Lanterns to raise dead - or at least the physical remains of - people who were related to superheroes. This volume collects issues 0-8 of the main series of Blackest Night - other volumes featuring sub-sets of the heroes and their interaction with the Black Lanterns are also available.
The various Lantern Corps form a spectrum that can overpower the Black Lanterns, but the big secret that the Guardians of the Universe have been keeping is that there is a White power available, and the various Corps are the spectrum that makes up the white light. The Black Lanterns know where the White power has been hiding since it created the universe - and you can probably guess which planet it is on...
The story here is the initial Black Lantern attack on Earth, the gathering of forces, and the fight-back. It begins with a team-up story of the Flash and the Green Lantern, renewing their friendship, and ends with the White light resurrecting a number of currently dead heroes. During the course of the story we discover that Nekron claims to be responsible for the previous resurrections of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and the Flash, and others, and tries to convert them to Black Lanterns - succeeding with some of them. Eventually, his claim is disputed and he is defeated, but with a cost - resurrection of dead heroes!
The artwork is up to the task of depicting the action, as is the writing. For myself, the successive big events with skies crowded with characters and world- or even multiverse-shattering epics mean very little to me, as the writers have to come up with something bigger each time. Hopefully, now that the universe has been re-established and reset yet again, things will calm down...
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Over-crowded, overpowering, but not overwritten
11 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback
This is the latest in DC's `big events' calendar, and carries on from the Sinestro Corps War and the subsequent spectrum of Lantern Corps, with back-ties to a number of past big events, and a spectacular resolution (or reset) to bring the Silver Age back to the centre-stage, with yet more resurrections, but this time with a reason, and a promise that this is the last of them (unless they realise that they have forgotten someone, I suppose).
At the end of the Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor's body was dumped on a planet in the forbidden space sector 666, and a black lantern grew around it. Here it is revealed that a being named Nekron has used it to power a corps of Black Lanterns to raise dead - or at least the physical remains of - people who were related to superheroes. This volume collects issues 0-8 of the main series of Blackest Night - other volumes featuring sub-sets of the heroes and their interaction with the Black Lanterns are also available.
The various Lantern Corps form a spectrum that can overpower the Black Lanterns, but the big secret that the Guardians of the Universe have been keeping is that there is a White power available, and the various Corps are the spectrum that makes up the white light. The Black Lanterns know where the White power has been hiding since it created the universe - and you can probably guess which planet it is on...
The story here is the initial Black Lantern attack on Earth, the gathering of forces, and the fight-back. It begins with a team-up story of the Flash and the Green Lantern, renewing their friendship, and ends with the White light resurrecting a number of currently dead heroes. During the course of the story we discover that Nekron claims to be responsible for the previous resurrections of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and the Flash, and others, and tries to convert them to Black Lanterns - succeeding with some of them. Eventually, his claim is disputed and he is defeated, but with a cost - resurrection of dead heroes!
The artwork is up to the task of depicting the action, as is the writing. For myself, the successive big events with skies crowded with characters and world- or even multiverse-shattering epics mean very little to me, as the writers have to come up with something bigger each time. Hopefully, now that the universe has been re-established and reset yet again, things will calm down...
At the end of the Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor's body was dumped on a planet in the forbidden space sector 666, and a black lantern grew around it. Here it is revealed that a being named Nekron has used it to power a corps of Black Lanterns to raise dead - or at least the physical remains of - people who were related to superheroes. This volume collects issues 0-8 of the main series of Blackest Night - other volumes featuring sub-sets of the heroes and their interaction with the Black Lanterns are also available.
The various Lantern Corps form a spectrum that can overpower the Black Lanterns, but the big secret that the Guardians of the Universe have been keeping is that there is a White power available, and the various Corps are the spectrum that makes up the white light. The Black Lanterns know where the White power has been hiding since it created the universe - and you can probably guess which planet it is on...
The story here is the initial Black Lantern attack on Earth, the gathering of forces, and the fight-back. It begins with a team-up story of the Flash and the Green Lantern, renewing their friendship, and ends with the White light resurrecting a number of currently dead heroes. During the course of the story we discover that Nekron claims to be responsible for the previous resurrections of Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern and the Flash, and others, and tries to convert them to Black Lanterns - succeeding with some of them. Eventually, his claim is disputed and he is defeated, but with a cost - resurrection of dead heroes!
The artwork is up to the task of depicting the action, as is the writing. For myself, the successive big events with skies crowded with characters and world- or even multiverse-shattering epics mean very little to me, as the writers have to come up with something bigger each time. Hopefully, now that the universe has been re-established and reset yet again, things will calm down...
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